Ross T. Yates

Ross is a corporate attorney who partners with clients during their most sensitive business matters and has developed a reputation for delivering reliable, practical, and efficient advice to get complex deals closed. His practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, corporate finance, including senior and mezzanine debt, growth equity, and special situations, corporate governance, and real estate transactions. Ross routinely advises mature businesses and their principals, private equity and other fund sponsors, family offices and investors in complex transactions across a multitude of industries including manufacturing, transportation, construction, sports and entertainment, financial services, coal and other natural resources, renewable energy development, and healthcare.

Ross earned his law degree from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Marshall University.

Prior to joining Gutwein Law, Ross practiced in the business department of a national law firm.

Representative Transactions

• Represented the sponsor in the closing of construction financing and tax equity commitments in excess of $392M related to a 400 MW solar farm in Indiana.

• Represented seller and joint venture entity in the sale, purchase, and expansion of an energy production facility with an enterprise value in excess of $125M including equity structuring, senior and mezzanine debt, and tax structuring including investment tax credits.

• Represented borrower in refinance and reorganization of $44.9M of senior and mezzanine debt facilities.  

• Represented principals of a technology company in the equity sale of their membership interests, including the f-reorganization of the target, to a strategic acquirer for an enterprise value in excess of $15M.

• Represented strategic acquirer in the stock sale of a national hazardous materials transportation company for an enterprise value in excess of $11M.

• Represented national third-party property management firm in its strategic acquisitions throughout the United States.

• Represented real estate private equity sponsor in the acquisition of multiple active farming operations throughout the United States.

• Represented borrower and pledgor in the restructure and refinance of existing debt for an operating mixed-use property in the Midwest.

• Represented acquirer in the financing and acquisition of a 238,000 square foot industrial facility.

• Represented tenant in the negotiation and execution of a lease for a 230,800 square foot warehouse facility.

• Represented tenant in the negotiation and execution of a lease for a 120,000 square foot manufacturing facility.

• Represented tenant in the negotiation and execution of a lease for a 27,000 square foot Class A office space.